Document Type
Response or Comment
Publication Title
Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law
Abstract
This commentary essay represents a brief response to Professor Stefan Padfield’s "An Introduction to Viewpoint Diversity Shareholder Proposals" (22 TRANSACTIONS: TENN. J. BUS. L. 271 (2021)). I am especially interested in two aspects of Professor Padfield’s article on which I comment briefly in turn. First and foremost, I focus in on relevant aspects of an academic and popular literature that Professor Padfield touches on in his article. This literature addresses an area that intersects with my own research: the diversity and independence of corporate management (in particular, as to boards of directors, but also as to high level executive officers--those constituting the so-called “C-suite”) and its effects on corporate decision-making. Second, I offer a few succinct thoughts on the suitability of the shareholder proposal process as a means of promoting viewpoint diversity in publicly held firms.
First Page
295
Last Page
306
Publication Date
Spring 2021
Recommended Citation
Heminway, Joan MacLeod, "A Few Quick Viewpoints on Viewpoint Diversity Shareholder Proposals" (2021). Scholarly Works. 793.
https://ir.law.utk.edu/utklaw_facpubs/793